Finger ring holder



Sept. 25, 1962 Filed Aug. 27, 1959 W. R. DOOR FINGER RING HOLDER 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 p 1962 w. R. DQOR 3,055,329

FINGER RING HOLDER Filed Aug. 27, 1959 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 27 INVENTOR.

31 33 Wesley R. Door BY 3% 36 /W United States Patent 3,055329 FINGER RING HOLDER Wesley R. Door, 316 W. Kennewick Ave., Kennewick, Wash. Filed Aug. 27, 1959, Set. No. 836,377 1 Claim. (Cl. 113-99) This inventien relates te -a finger ring helder 12e grip ene or more rings er ring findings during mannfaeture er repair.

In jewelry praetiee it is uiten neeessary te grip a ring te repair er resize it er te grip a wedding and engagement ring ensemble tegether te selder them to each ether. It is also neeessary rto clarnp ring findings while the ring is being assembled. T accernplish this, the commen practice is te wire the rings tegether er te n-se a charceal bleek and tweezers te held the parts. This arrangement makes alignment extremely diflieult and requmes a great deal of rtime.

It is an object of this nvention to provide a simple ring helder w-hich is portable and which will securely grip ene er more rings aegardless of size.

It is anether object of this inven'nion te previde a ring helder whieh will held a ring and a ring finding during assembly.

These and fiunther object-s will hecome -apparent Lfrem the fiel=lewing descripen and aeeempanying drewings. Lt is te be neted rtlrat the embediments shewn are net exhaust-ive, bnt merely illustrate =ene form of this inventien.

In the dnawings:

FIGURE 1 is a front elevatienal view of the nevel finger ring helder;

FIGURE 2 is a side elevation-al view of the nevel finge1 ring helder;

FIGURE 3 is a sectienal view taken on line 3-3 of FIGURE 1 shewing the lewer sectien of the handle breken away fer cenvenience;

FIGURE 4 is a view similar te FIGURE 1 with the lewer seetien ef rthe helder shewn in seetien;

FIGURE 5 is an enlarged front elevatonal view of the upper sectien of the helder shewing twe rings being held in place;

FIGURE 6 is a iep view of the finger ring helder;

FIGURE 7 is a fnent elevatienal view er the upper pertien of a second embedirnent of the fmger ring helder shewing a ring and finding in pesitien en the helder; and

FIGURE 8 is a seet-ienal view ef the helder in FIG- URE 7 taken aleng line 8-8.

Referring new te the drawings there is shown a ring helder censisting of a hand-1e 10, a sleeve =11, twe jaws 12 and a flat spring 13. The handle is made 0f plastic er meta-l, may he selid er hellew and rnay have any desired en-tside eenfiguratien. In the drawings handle 10 is shown as a selid cylindrical piece of bar stock. Handle 10 has en opening 14 at its upper end extending into the end of the har steek and =terminarting in a shenl der 15. At the lewer end of opening 14 is a threaded hele 16 which extends aleng the center ef the cylindrieal handle10.

Two jaws 512 ferm a elamp genenally denoted as 32. The jaws 12 are fermed of steel wi1e and have flattened ends 17 eentaining heles 18. A threaded shaft 19 also has a flattened extensi-en 20 threugh whieh a hele 21 is eut. A small rivet 22 conneets jaws 12 and shat 19 threugh heles 18 and 21 te ferm a hinge. The lewer end of shait 19 is threaded at 23 and is received by threaded hele=16.

The hinged pertiens of the jaws- 12 are snrreunded by a eylindrical sleeve1l which is hellew and is squeezed and spread at its top pertien 24 te held jaws 12 in a ?atented Sept. 25, 1962 2 ventieal plane and te allew mevement ef jaws 12 within t-his plane. Sleeve 11 alse has a neunded lewear end 25 whieh abuts against sheul-der 15. The diameter of opening 14 and enter diameter bf sleeve 11 are nearly identieal te allew hand=le 10 te rigidly support sleeve 11.

The jaws 12 are n1irner images er" ene anether and therefere enly ene jaw will be eernpletely described. Each jaw 12 has a straight pertien -26 extending irom its flattened end 17. 'I'lns pentien 26 is bent inwardly at 27 and has an inwerdly extending straight pentien 28. A flat spring 113 having netehes 29, which fit ar ennd jaws 12, fits hetween jaws 12 al: hends 27 te nrge the jaws 12 apart. It can be seen in FIGURE 1 that pertiens 26 and 28 -iorm a diarnend shaped -cenfiguratien, with portien 28 being semewhat she-rter than pertien 26.

The straight per-tien 28 is curved =entwardly art 30 and inwardly again -as 31 te complete (the clamp 32. This ela.-mp has twe elements 33, 34 at each side which are jeined in a transverse inverted U shape. Sides 33, 34 are bent eutvward-ly firem a line parallel with pertien 28. The side 34 terminates in a hooked pneng 35 whieh is bent sharply inward.

Frem rtln's deseriptien i-t ean easily be seen that as shafit 19 is threaded into handle 10 the top pentien 24 ef sleeve 11 will ferme elamps 32 ieward each ether. As shafit 19 is retnaoted, spring 13 will ieree the clamps 32 apant, limited by the abnrtment of per-tiens 26 en sleeve 11 et pentien 24.

In use, a ring is placed herizenfnally hetween clamps 32 which are then elesed by iurning lrand1e 10 imtil seeure gripping eentaet is made with the ring et fleur pointe hy elements 33, 34 of -each clamp 32. The ring is further supported by heeked prengs 35 which prevent the ring fnem slipping tewarrd hinge rivet 22. The clamps 32 are wide eneugh te accommodate a plurality of rings, such as a wedding band 36 and engagement ring 37 as shcvwn in FIGURE 5, te held them seeurely while sel dening them tegether. Whether the rings are of the Same size er net is immaterial since the steel elarnps 32 een bend te grip a plurality of sizes at ence. This prevides a steady werking grip fier rings while seldering, repairing, resizing er assernbling. 'I'he epen cenfigunatien of the helder allews free heat tnansfer and the handle 10 may be gr-ipped =by hand, in a secket er in a vise during nsage.

A slightly dierent configuratien of the helder is shown in FIGURES 7 and 8 wherein the helder is adapted rto grip a ring finding 38 and a ring 39 ier assembly purposes. The main structure of (the helder is i-dentical with that previeusly described. Clarnp 40 is identical in shape te el=amps 32 in FIGURES 1-6 bui: has preng 35 positiened close to j-aw 12 (see FIGURE 8). Clamp 41 has a sernewhat sharper entwand bend at 42 than the cerrespendng bend in clamp 40. The bend 42 ex tends a short distance te a narrow Ushaped ehannel 43 the enter side of which emtends alrnes-t parallel te pertien 28 and is labeled 44. Side 44 is bent at a right angle and is shaped te overlap the ring -at 45 and heeks dewnward and inwardly at 46, terminating in an inside portien 47 alse overlapping the ring. The channel 43 and pentien 47 are wide eneugh te aeeemmedaite a singl-e hand er ring.

During assembly, the finding 38 is placed npen heeked preng 35 and rthe ring 39 its within channel 43 and.

heek 46 heing held in a single plane hy side 44 and pontien 47. This a1ign the pants 38 and 39 and by turning the handle -10 the twe pamts will -be breught inte pneper pesition and held securely fier seldering.

Fr-em sthe foregeng it is evident that this helder allews yet is easily seeured er released by simply turning handle 10.

The two embodiments shown are illustrative on1y, and are not ntend&d to limit the scope of this invention except as it is -lmited by the claim whch follow.

H-aving fully desorped ths nvention, I claim:

In a finge-r ring bolder, =a supporting handle, a pair of movable jaws mounted at one end of sad handle, said jaws each comprsing a continuous 1ength of bent r0d mounted on the handle fox movement both relative themto and =t0ward or away lnom one another, sad jaws including a straight ponton directed angularly outward fimm the handle and from one another, said jaws funther includng 21 bent Ushaped porton extending angularly inwa.rd toward one another and means connecting sad Ushaped ponton '00 the outer end of S3lid straight porrtion, the open end of the U-shaped portion being faced 4 (cowawd the handle, sad U-shaped pomtions each terminauting in a hoek drected angularly inward ='toward one another and away from the handle.

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